Author Archives: Julian Upton

Election Landslide: What Now for Spanish Healthcare?

The fact that the eurozone is in a tailspin is hardly ‘news’, but when heads start rolling as fast as they have done recently in Greece, Italy, and now Spain, it leaves the unsettling feeling that the heat on an already intense situation has been turned up one more notch.
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Roche Gets Tough on Greece

Roche Gets Tough on Greece, Other Eurozone Countries May Follow On Friday Roche confirmed it had come to the end of its tether with state-funded hospitals in Greece. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, CEO Severin Schwan announced that the company has increased shipments of drugs to pharmacies in the country, while cutting off [...]
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Pharma to Flash the Cash to Counter Bleak Short-Term Outlook

Nearly two-thirds of US senior pharmaceutical executives surveyed by last month foresee a ‘full economic recovery’ by the end of 2013, with more than half of these pointing to an upturn in the industry’s fortunes by the end of next year. However, 27 percent of the 100 executives interviewed by KPMG for its Industry Pulse Survey [...]
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The Most Influential Pharma Leader Or Institution?

Ahead of Pharm Exec’s 30th Anniversary Issue later this year, we are assembling a list of pharma leaders who have made the most impact on the industry. Which individual(s) or institution(s) do you think has had the most influence of the industry in the last 10–30 years? Please leave a comment in the box below or drop [...]
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The Most Influential Pharma Leader Or Institution?

Ahead of Pharm Exec’s 30th Anniversary Issue later this year, we are assembling a list of pharma leaders who have made the most impact on the industry. Which individual(s) or institution(s) do you think has had the most influence of the industry in the last 10–30 years? Please leave a comment in the box below or drop [...]
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